General Knowledge

Elie Wiesel:

• Born September 30th, 1928
• Deported to Auschwitz in 1944
• Wrote 36 works about the holocaust and Judaism
  • Night was the story of his imprisonment in Auschwitz
• Earned a Nobel Peace Prize
• Appointed as chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust

Perils of Indifference Speech:

• Audience
• blah

The Holocaust:

• https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143
• Holocaust means "to sacrifice by fire" in Greek
• Systematic murder of 6 million Jews
  • Also targeted the homosexuals and mentally disabled
• Nazis believed Germanic people were racially superior

Auschwitz Death Camp:

• http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/auschwitz
• Largest of the Nazi death camps
• Opened in 1940
• Some prisoners were subjected to experimentation
• gas chambers
• disease